10-on-10: The Chronicles of Evolution
Jointly organised by:
Date: February to November
Venue: Various venues, Singapore
Venue: Various venues, Singapore
11 December 2017 (Epilogue)
Sydney Brenner – The Neutral Clock for the History of Life
Eörs Szathmáry – Difficult Questions About Evolution
Gerd B. Müller – Towards an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
20 November 2017
Helga Nowotny – A Humble View From Inside Evolution
Stefan Thurner – Why it Could Make Sense to Understand How Evolution Works—Finally—After 1010 years
13 October 2017
W. Brian Arthur – The Emergence of Technology in Human History
Sander van der Leeuw – The Evolution of Innovation
18 September 2017
Roland Fletcher – Hominin Cultural Evolution: Pattern and Process over 4 Million Years
J. Stephen Lansing – The Challenge of the Anthropocene
14 August 2017
Tecumseh Fitch – The Evolution of the Human Capacity for Language
Nick Enfield – The Evolutions of Language
14 July 2017
Terrence Sejnowski – Evolving Brains
Atsushi Iriki – A Presage of Anthropocene: How the Primate Brain and Its Learning Capacity Co-evolves with the Environment
6 June 2017
Francis Thackeray – Human Evolution in Africa, a Probabilistic Definition of a Species and Sigma Taxonomy
Svante Pääbo – A Neandertal Perspective on the Human Genome
23 May 2017
Byrappa Venkatesh – Evolution and Diversity of Fishes: The Largest Group of Extant Vertebrates
John Long – The Early Evolution of Sex as Told through the Fossil Record
10 April 2017
Detlev Arendt – From Nerve Net to Brain: The Rise of the Urbilaterian in Animal Evolution
Per Ahlberg – The Origin and Early Evolution of Vertebrates: From Jawless Wonders to the Conquest of the Land
13 March 2017
Jack W. Szostak – The Origin of Cellular Life
Hyman Hartman – The Origin of the Genetic Code and Metabolism: From the Eukaryotic Cell to the Carbonaceous Chondrites
21 February 2017
Sydney Brenner – Why We Need to Talk about Evolution
John D. Barrow – The Origin and Evolution of the Universe